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A Perfect Fit
In New Boots
Here’s away the lumberjack gets a perfect fit in his
new boots. Before ever working in them, he fills them
with water to soak overnight. Next morning, he puts them
on wet, wears them all day, letting them dry to .the form
of his feet. Then he softens up the leather with a little
bear grease. And their excellent new shape never changes
thereafter.
Q. “HOW long does it take a fingernail to be re
placed completely from base to tip?”
A. Figure four to five months.
SLEEP RESEARCHERS contend only about one
person in 20 dreams in color.
KING KONG
Am asked how that great ape King Kong was made
to move on the screen. Stop motion animation is what
that film technique is called. The camera boys shoot
one frame at a time, manually changing the position of
the big beast between each exposure. Slow process. Re
quires about three days that way to get 15 seconds of
running film.
REPORT OUT of Kuala, Lumpur, says a 100-
year old medicine man there recently got married for
the 78th time. That has to be a record, what? His latest
bride was age 42.
POETESS Elizabeth Barrett Browning's father, Ed
ward Barrett, had so many children, 12 in all, that he ran
out of names for them, so started designating them by
numbers. Called his seventh son Septimus, his eighth
Octavius.
GREAT QUOTE
What I can’t figure out is why so many innocuous
remarks withstand the test of lime. In 1574, Murad 111,
Sultan of Turkey, uttered: “I’m hungry. Bring me some
thing to eat." And that precious gem has been included
in countless books. Why?
ALL JAPANESE words end in vowels or the letter N.
WATER TURNED loose through a drain may create
a little whirlpool all right, but it does not necessarily
turn clockwise south of the equator and counterclockwise
north of the equator, contrary to widespread belief.
Which way the whirlpool spins has nothing to do with its
whereabouts in the hemispheres. Such is the report from
the U. S. Weather Bureau.
Addrtts mail to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 1 7076, Port Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1974 L. B. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, Sept. 14,
the 257th day of 1974 with 108 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
new phase.
The morning stars are Venus
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mer
cury, Mars and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Virgo.
Margaret Sanger, American
pioneer leader in the birth
control movement, was born
Sept. 14,1883.
On this day in history:
In 1847, Mexico City was
occupied by the United States
Army.
In 1901, President William
McKinley died from wounds
inflicted by an assassin eight
days earlier.
In 1972, the Senate approved
a Soviet-American agreement
limiting strategic missile laun
chers.
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
Why do trucks that whisper
by in daylight have to gear
up 14 times after midnight?
Winter sportsfans note:
week-old doughnuts make
dandy hooky pucks.
A pedestrian is anyone
with a teen-ager, a car and
lives more than three blocks
from the high school.
People who carry their
work home with them find
the brief case makes a good
doorstop.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
THOUGHTS
He said to them, “Because
of your little faith. For truly,
I say to you, if you have faith
as a grain of mustard seed,
you will say to this moun
tain, ‘Move hence to yonder
place,’ and it will move; and
nothing will be impossible to
you.” — Matthew 17:20
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From other newspapers
The War On Crime
Ask most Americans about the
No. 1 problem today and chances
are they’ll say it’s either inflation
or crime.
President Ford has labeled
.inflation the nation’s top hurdle
but some public opinion polls have
put crime first.
While many people tend to as
sociate crime with the big cities,
reports of recent years show that
lawlessness has increased more in
some suburban and rural areas.
Atty. Gen. William Saxbe, who
has the reputation of being an
outspoken man, made a speech
recently in which he said that he
crime picture is even worse than
most of us had imagined.
He said that if we go on as we
are, “there is every possibility that
crime will inundate us.”
Well that’s a pretty strong
statement but Saxbe backed it up
with figures show that crime
increased 6 per cent in 1973 with a
16 percent spurt during the final
quarter of the year and that the
sharp rise continued into 1974 with
a 15 per cent increase in the first
Killing Hunters
Each year thousands of hunters
are shot by accident, many fatally.
Most of the tragedies occur in fall
and early winter, many on opening
days for deer and other wildlife.
Rifles, of course, are more
deadly at long range but shotguns
Chewable Iron Dangerous
When tragedy from some
unsuspecting source hits a child
one of the first questions people
ask is “why didn’t the doctors tell
us of the danger?”
Doctors can’t caution everyone
about every danger but they can
pass along to your local
newspaper some warnings and
that is exactly what one has done.
The warning article comes
from the American Medical
Association Journal concerning
preparations containing iron.
“The fourth most common
cause of poisoning in children
under 5 years of age” is
“ingestion of iron preparations
and vitamin preparations con
taining iron.”
And some of these iron
preparations happen to be
around a house where there are
children because they are the
same pills commonly prescribed
for mothers during or im-
Lurking fear
plagues her
For the past few months, and it may be
related to some of the events our nation is
going through, I have had a great fear I’ve
never had before. At times I think I am
dying, and at times I wish I were dead. I
hear you speak of peace and happiness,
and I wish I could know them. But I have
this lurking fear that something dreadful
is about to happen. Please help me. M. M.
The events of the past year and a half
have been enough to upset anyone. These
have certainly been grave days for the
nation. But, as our new president an
nounced with hope, better days are ahead,
and if millions of Americans will repent of
their sins this could well be.
The truth of the matter is that without
Editorials
WAYCROSS JOURNAL-HERALD
The Henry County Weekly-Advertiser
Die Thomaston Times
quarter of the current year.
And he pulled no punches in
saying that the things that have
been happening in Washington
have been a sorry example of the
“law and order” that the federal
government is supposed to sup
port.
Neither the attorney general nor
anyone else has come up with the
solution to the crime problem. It is
easy to speak in generalizations
and blame poverty, the pressures
of society, the growth of violence
and pornography and other factors
as contributing to the spiraling
crime rate.
Some like to say we have coddled
criminals too much and this has
encouraged crime.
But no one knows and the
answers remain elusive.
Probably if there is one thing
that most Americans are now
agreed on however, it is that top
priority in the crime war today
should be on protecting society.
Rehabilitating criminals, as im
portant as that is, will have to
come second.
are even more dangerous at close
range. The usual accident causes
are failure to unload guns, firing at
a moving target before identified,
carelessness in carrying guns and
hasty or excited shooting.
mediately after pregnancy.
Under prescription, many
pediatricians are now recom
mending iron-fortified formulas
and other food products with
iron. Thus the availability or iron
is increasing, warns AMA.
AMA warns, too, that the
“fruit-flavored and animal
shaped . . . chewable” iron
tablets are often prescribed for
children. But the danger lies in
the fact a child could get the
bottle and to chew up 25 of these
tablets could bring death unless
promptly treated.
Unfortunately, the iron bottles
carry no danger warning and,
thus, AMA believes, the danger
increases.
So put iron tablets in the same
category as lye, sleeping pills,
and other dangerous drugs —
keep them safely out of the reach
of children. '
MY r ■
ANSWER Lfß
God, fear is only natural. The Bible speaks
of the last days of civilization when “men’s
hearts shall fail them for fear.’’ Fear was
unknown until man sinned. It was then that
Adam hid himself from God and was
afraid.
But the Bible offers a cure for fear. It
says, “Perfect love casteth out fear.” And
who is “perfect love?” Jesus Christ! He
spent a great deal of his time on earth
casting out fear. When His disciples
trembled with fear on stormy Galilee, He
appeared to them and said, “It is I, be not
afraid.”
In the absence of fear is the Presence of
Christ. Let Him come into your life and
give you His peace to counteract those
blighting fears.
Berry’s World
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tonight and I seem to have the shorts. How
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Foodstuff
ACROSS
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4 Hash, for
instance
8 Pub offerings
12 Fruit drink
13 Bird bill
protuberance
14 Hawaiian
goose
15 Decompose
16 Reinstall
18 Barterers
20 Sea duck
21 Split —soup
22 Concludes
24 Pain
26 On the briny
27 Little (Scot.)
30 Lodger
32 Certain pastry
34 Close-fitting
undergarment
35 Feminine
appellation
36 Heightslab.)
37 Communists
39 Flesh food
40 Ceramic piece
41 Brisk energy
(slang)
42 Habituate
(var.)
45 Boy's name
49 Abandonment
51 Epoch
52 Prayer ending
53 Unoccupied
54 Transgression
55 Greatest
quantity
56 Dregs
57 Droop
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1 Small pastry
2 Smell
3 Compressed
similes
4 Botanical
sheath
5 Sidelong look
6 Flowers
7 Os wine (comb,
form; var.)
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Don Oakley
U.S. Mint pleads
for common ‘cents’
By Don Oakley
In the past 15 years, the U.S. Bureau of the Mint has
stamped out some 62 billion Lincoln cents. It is currently pro
ducing 35 million each day, almost twice as many as last
year.
Fully half this tremendous output, however — something
oyer 30 billion coins, the Mint estimates — is not in actual
circulation. Thus the penny shortage which is a severe prob
lem or inconvenience all over the country.
Where are all these pennies hiding? According to Mint
director Mary Brooks, billions of them are in dresser
drawers, shoe boxes, pickle jars — almost any place you can
think of. An unknown number of others are believed to be in
the hands of speculators.
The reason for the latter is that in December, 1973, the
Treasury announced that it would request legislation chang
ing the penny from 95 per cent copper and 5 per cent zinc to
an aluminum alloy. It was apparent that the steadily rising
price of copper would eventually make the amount of metal
in the penny worth more than the face value of the coin.
Although there are stiff penalities for melting down pen
nies, they began vanishing by the tens of millions, just as
silver coins vanished in the middle 19605, even though the
number of pennies that would have to be consumed to make
any copper conversion operations worthwhile is staggering.
For example, the market price of copper would have to go
over $1.50 a pound (it is still well below that) to exceed the
face value of a penny. At $1.50 a pound, 250,000 pennies,
weighing 1,714 pounds and with a face value of $2,500, would
be worth $2,571 as raw copper. The s7l profit would hardly
pay for the energy needed to melt them down.
But whatever the explanation, the penny shortage con
tinues and the Treasury Department is appealing for the
help of patriotic Americans.
It points out that just one billion pennies returned to cir
culation would save taxpayers $lO million. If 15 billion pen
nies were returned, the Mint would not have to make anv
more for almost two years and would save $l5O million.
To stimulate citizen participation, the Treasury is award
ing Certificates of Special Citation to anyone who deposits or
cashes $25 worth of pennies at a commercial bank. Banks
should forward the names of persons or groups qualifying for
the citation to: Mrs. Mary Brooks, Director of the Mint, 55
Mint Street, San Francisco, CA 94175.
GRIFFIN
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Quimby Melton, Jr, Editor and Publisher
Cary Reeves.
General Manager
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Answer to Previous Puzzle
IAIPIA
31 Weirder
33 Abalone
38 Determine
40 River in
Ontario
41 Window glass
(pl.)
42 Type of cheese
43 Glade (comb,
form)
44 Employs
46 Doughnut
center
47 Assam
silkworm
48 Warbled
50 Sesame
8 Those against
9 Conduct
10 Grafted (her.)
11 Soothsayer
17 Unruffled
19 Opines
23 Arboreal
homes
24 Eminent
25 Simpleton
(coll.)
26 Craft society
27 Having no rest
28 Flat-topped
hill
29 Anatomy (ab.)
NEWS
Bill Knight,
Executive Editor
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